Robert Redford interview: 'When I was a kid, no one ever told me I was good looking'

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So this is it? The Sundance Kid is riding into the sunset? Robert Redford, that rare movie icon who, for the best part of six decades, has managed to cultivate a reputation as both a respected actor and a golden boy sex symbol, is finally calling it quits and retiring?

His tanned face wrinkles into a smile at the question. “Well, never say never,” he says. “You have to be careful about being too final because sometimes you have to change your mind. But I feel this is the right time to go out as an actor, because I’ve been doing this since I was 21 and that’s a long time. So it’s just a question of moving on to something else, which would be directing and producing.”